"they may produce fakes...."kinteafrokunta
the RSA's very own SA CAA is hardly on the forefront of fraud suppression... given that (according to CAA sources) recently the SA CAA has moved to allow local pilots with a criminal record to be given licenses, persons that have cheated on exams to be given licenses, and in fact have not acted against those that were given the information as to what questions would be in the exams, and also given the answers.
Fraud is fraud. In a global workforce, the acceptance of fraud as a way of doing business affects the whole workforce. While the topic happens to be pilots, it is prevalent in other disciplines as well, such as medicine.
The authorities do not help, their arrogance and parochialism has resulted in the situation that there are some 180 different ways of complying with one international set of standards. A common standard would be far easier to evaluate, yet we cannot even agree on manner of recording experience, or standards of knowledge testing.
[Apparently crime does pay, the recent completion of career of a "character" from a North Asian Carrier culminates a history of fraud that spans since 1982 (according to Flight International contemporaneous reports and the AAIB supporting information)].